If you want something in between, i'd suggest Julia, which has taken a lot of array programming concepts and ported them into a functional language, so you can get the ideas without going so far down the rabbit hole that everything is an array.
The problem though might be that those ideas (like Julia's broadcast) are so seamlessly integrated into it's functional paradigm that you won't "really" know which parts are parts where you've been tricked into doing array programming.
The problem though might be that those ideas (like Julia's broadcast) are so seamlessly integrated into it's functional paradigm that you won't "really" know which parts are parts where you've been tricked into doing array programming.